Wednesday, September 11, 2019

Hensall Co-op Members:

We are accepting nominations for Directors of the Board.

At the Annual General Meeting (AGM) to be held on Wednesday November 27, 2019, we will be holding elections for 3 Directors. Aise Van Beets (Bayfield) and Terence VanderWal (Denfield) have completed two 3-year terms and Ed Mosterd (Shakespeare) has completed three 3-year terms. All three of these candidates are eligible for re-election at the AGM.

Nominations for new Directors must be submitted prior to October 15, 2019. Under the bylaws of our Co-op, members cannot be nominated from the floor at the meeting.

Should you know of a candidate who you believe will represent the members of Hensall Co-op well as a Director on our Board, we encourage you to nominate him or her using one of the following options:

by delivering the nomination form in person to the Secretary of the Co-operative, Mr. William Wallace;

by registered or ordinary mail addressed to the Secretary of the Co-operative, Mr. William Wallace at P.O. Box 219, 1 Davidson Drive, Hensall Ontario N0M 1X0;

by facsimile transmission addressed to the Secretary of the Co-operative at (519) 262-2450

Wednesday, July 31, 2019

Last week farmers had a chance to check out Hensall Co-op's newly acquired dry bean processing facility at Bloom, Manitoba, located near Portage la Prairie.

CEO Brad Chandler says a number of improvements are being made to the facility.

"We're increasing the cleaning capacity and the performance to get better quality product out," he explained. "We're also adding storage here, receiving legs, receiving conveyors to be able to take more product. Adding a scale for quicker in and out for our producers. It's really to make it more efficient and more effective for their operation."

Hensall President Peter Dinsmore talked about demand for their products.

"Demand is getting higher all the time," he said. "Everybody's maybe looking for a different protein product rather than meat and I think we'll see that demand grow in the future. We have good markets, we sell to 45 countries. It was processed all in Hensall, Ontario, now we're processing out here [Manitoba] too so that saves on logistics of travelling it down to Ontario. Some of what's processed here will head right to the west coast."